Meat and Burghol Platter

A Syrian-Lebanese import, this dish has been adopted by Palestinians for generations and we have come to believe it is quite our own!

This recipe comes from my mother’s kitchen and she had learned how to do it from her Syrian aunt, Marie, a star cook in the Damascus bourgeois milieu, whom I remember very vividly, particularly in relation to this dish.

She lived on the third floor of an apartment building after having moved from a large independent house in a residential area